Part 3: Home Office Reveal

This post is long over due but it’s finally here, my home office reveal!

First, I think you need a little reminder of what it looked like BEFORE.

Now prepare yourself for the “AFTER” photo….Ta daaaaa….

I’m psyched about this new transformation. When we moved into our house, this was the smallest and barest bedroom. Although I immediately had plans to convert this to a home office, I just never got around to it. The tiny desk and red chair (which were brought over from our condo unit) seemed to do the trick for a while. However, I no longer had a small corner to work with, I had an entire room to fill. So the makeover began…with the help of my sidekick, Mike, and his father, Big Joe, of course!

I infused this room with lots of soft colours. Steering away from my typical decorating style, I wanted this room to feel different from the rest of the house.

The patterns, textures and colours used in this space helped to create an energetic and unique feminine feel. I needed it to be a space where I can get creative and double as a place to store all of my work and craft supplies.

This desk was an online Kijiji purchase and you can see how I totally transformed this unit here. Big Joe added an extension to the desk which allowed me to get a larger work surface (my number one item on the “must-haves” list).

All of those horrible computer cords are now concealed and my computer gadgets have a place to hide in the below cabinets. I love the built-in shelves above the desk. The height of them actually make the room feel larger.

My skull head sits proudly on top of my magazines! The tutorial can be found here.

On the opposing wall, you will find my gallery wall. I have collected several frames to showcase some of my favourite things such as my drawings, inspirational quotes and diplomas.

With a little paint and a DIY frame, this ordinary cork board was revamped into a vision board.

Sabrina is the design enthusiast behind the blog, Pink Little Notebook, where she explores her creativity through home décor, thrift store finds, DIY projects and her ever growing love to paint everything in sight! She is indeed a storyteller of style and has an extensive mixture of artistic skills and abilities which include everything from make-up art, graphic designing, painting, drawing, and even self-taught photography, just to name a few. Through her blog Sabrina combines everything she has learned over the years and hopes to inspire others along the way!

I feel so inspired! My personal home office and my personal art and music studio are both under renovation and reorganization right now. My creativity has been impaired by too much “stuff” on open chrome shelving. Your white, clean and bright uncluttered room is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful job!!!

Oh my gosh! Your home office is beautiful! I’m trying to find inspiration ideas to redo the home office I am sharing with DH..He has a beautiful Cherry desk by Hooker that weights a ton so I’d have to hire a lot of strong males to move it if I wanted to rearrange the existing furniture. I have my Sauder computer desk, plus a bookcase that holds lots of photo albums, we have a Sauder filing cabinet, plus an old two drawer metal filing cabinet that holds the adding machine and desk lamp. The closest is full of genealogy research notebooks, office supplies and anything else that I don’t have storage for! I’ve been fighting getting a laptop but I think that might be the answer. Or one of desk computers all built into one. I’m not comfortable even typing on a laptop but people tell me I will get used to it. If I had a laptop, I’d still want a printer. No way I could do without one. If I got a laptop, I think I could switch some bedroom furniture around and create a small space for the laptop and printer in my bedroom. Does a printer have to be hooked up to cable access or just to any electrical plug? I’m not savy about computers and technology.

I love your deslk and the top(shelf units). Did you buy those as one unit? How did you create the table. It is just plywood that you painted or that part built from scratch? Is there a tuitorial that I might have missed on that?

Hi Betty! Thanks for your message. Take a look at Behind the Scenes: A Desk Makeover (http://www.pinklittlenotebook.com/behind-the-scenes-a-desk-makeover/). It will give you an idea of how the desk was created. I used a Pine Wood Top that I purchased from Lowes and the dimensions worked out perfectly with the desk I had (soo no cutting involved just had to paint). I’m working on creating a tutorial for the desk extension for a future blog.

Hello Sabrina! I stumbled across your blog when I saw on of these pictures of your office (and of course fell head over heels for the space!). You did an amazing job! I will definitely become a new follower! :)- Erika

It’s a pity you don’t have a donate button! I’d certainly donate to this excellent blog! I suppose for now i’ll settle for bookmarking and adding your RSS feed to my Google account. I look forward to brand new updates and will share this blog with my Facebook group. Talk soon!

How beautiful! I am trying to do something similar in my office when you found the desk hutch, what was it classified under? Everything I search does not have a desk with the hutch. Also about how much was the desk hutch?

Hi Heaven! I was pretty lucky with this kijiji find. I searched under “office desk” and I just happened to come across this one. I instantly fell in love because I know these type of desks are hard to find (esp. in solid wood!). The person who posted it, just wanted to get rid of it so I got it for free. It was my lucky day!

I have to say I love love love this office! I saw this picture on tumblr and it immediately became my inspiration for my future office! I’ve been trying to find the true origin of this photo for a while now and I’m soo glad I finally found it! I really wanted to know where this desk was from because in the picture it looks like two different desks attached, thanks for posting your process of how you made the desk and refurbished it!

Welcom Minja! Glad you found my blog! The desk was a Kijiji purchase I found online. I re-painted it, added a pine desktop, stained it blue and added an “L” extension. Check out this post – http://www.pinklittlenotebook.com/behind-the-scenes-a-desk-makeover/ Feel free to contact me if you have further questions P.S. – I would greatly appreciate it (if you don’t mind), sharing the tumblr site you found the photo on. Cheers!

Oh how lovely this is. I am writing a desk decorating/office decor post and this reveal fits so perfectly that I am featuring yours. I will link to your post and let you know when it goes live. You’ll get pinned … a lot!!!

I am working on MY home office/art room and this gave me so many ideas. It’s beautiful. I will go with a different color scheme for mine but I see how you pulled all of this together. Very informative. Thank you.